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Tuesday, 8 August 2017

The poisoning of New Zealand

This
is very personal as my illness is almost certainly caused by exposure
to nasty pesticides.

This
very good doco has been disappeared and nothing like this can be made
now.

There
is no current affairs left in NZ. It was killed off.

At
least in the US it's all there if you go looking.

New
Zealanders are totally starved of facts about things that really
matter.

CENSORED
FROM NZ TELEVISION – IVON WATKINSDOW’S RELEASE OF DEADLY 245T
FROM 1962-81 IN NEW PLYMOUTH

“Also
disturbing are the birth defects documented by a local midwife, and
the fact that Ivon Watkins Dow continued to manufacture 2-4-5-T in
New Zealand until 1987, making us the last country in the world to
manufacture the dangerous substance.”

The
Green Party NZ

The
TV 3 Exposé, initially broadcast then censored from NZ TV.
A must see for any member of the public, this doco covers the
exposure of the Paritutu and New Zealand community at large to the
chemical 2-4-5-T, manufactured at Ivon Watkins Dow in New Plymouth
between 1962-1981, and the disastrous effects it had on those
exposed.

Outbreaks
of rare diseases and tumours are appearing in clusters around New
Zealand, close to chemical factories. Why doesn’t the Government
want to investigate? Simon Jones discovers what the authorities don’t
want you to know:

Walk
down any street in New Plymouth and you will probably hear a mixture
of coughing and spluttering. Look inside any school and there appears
to be more special needs children than is the norm for a city the
size of New Plymouth. It’s often been said that everyone knows
someone with a serious disease, whether it be cancer or multiple
sclerosis.

Bad
luck? Possibly, but for the last 15 years a group of residents have
turned scientists to uncover what they say is a national health
scandal – and one which, despite the government and media’s
persistent attempts to ignore, won’t go away.

They
may sound like conspiracy theorists in overdrive – and there is
little in the way of official evidence and health statistics to back
up what they say. But here is the frightening thing: If, in this
real-life game of Fact or Fiction?, only 10 percent of
what the residents say is true, we have a huge health scandal on our
hands – the magnitude and implications of which are unimaginable.

The
story centres around one of the city’s major employers, the Ivon
Watkins Dow Plant.

Since
the early 1960s, and up until 1987, it manufactured the 2,4,5T
herbicide – which contains the deadly dioxin also used to form
Agent Orange – a weapon of huge destruction in the Vietnam War.

In
New Zealand and around the world 2,4,5T is used to kill scrub, gorse
and blackberry. In Vietnam, with concentrations of dioxin much
higher, it had the same effect – to the extent where it devastated
the country’s crops and caused major health problems amongst
veterans, including cancer, multiple sclerosis, while creating
learning difficulties amongst the vets’ children.

DIOXIN
DISASTER

TV3’s
Melanie Reid has spent the last year investigating dioxin
contamination from the herbicide 2-4-5-T, especially in the New
Plymouth suburb of Paritutu, where Ivon Watkins Dow manufactured the
chemical for more than 20 years. The result, a 90-min documentary
called Let
us Spraywent
to air last night. If you missed it, you can watch it
online here. (Video
displayed above).

The
documentary is extremely disturbing. Most notably, a forensic
accountant hired by TV3 went through an earlier Ministry of Health
report into dioxin contamination in New Plymouth and found that
ill-defined parameters, muddled reporting of facts and
inconsistencies in drawing conclusions masked the true extent of the
dioxin contamination problem.